December 17, 2024 • 40 mins
Boston drivers have a reputation for being some of the worst drivers in the country and get a bad rap for being aggressive on the roadways. According to a recent LendingTree study, Massachusetts has the worst drivers in the U.S. Based on data collected from Nov. 5th, 2023, through Nov. 4th, 2024, Massachusetts drivers had 61.1 incidents (accidents, DUIs, speeding and citations) per 1,000 drivers. Do you agree? Do you think Massachusetts really has the worst drivers?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice size. I'm Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So today I had to drive early this morning, well
for me early this morning, it's nine o'clock when you
work until midnight, and once again I was reminded how
bad Massachusetts drivers are. Okay, now, it just so happened
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that on this very day there was a report, a
scientific report. My feeling is a little more subjective, but
I suspect some of you might feel the same way.
A lending Tree, a lot of these companies now do surveys,
and this seemed to be a pretty legitimate survey by
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a company called lending Tree, and basically they concluded that,
according to the latest lending Tree study, it seems pretty scientific,
Massachusetts had the worst drivers in the US. Well, Arkansas
has the best. Now Massachusetts has the worst drivers in
the US because from November fifth of twenty twenty three
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through November fourth of twenty twenty four, that's a year
Massachusetts drivers had sixty one point one incidents, which meant accidents, DUI,
speeding and citations per one thousand drivers. So you have
about a six percent chance if you're a driver in
Massachusetts in any given year to get into an accident,
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have a DUI as speeding or a citation. Okay, the
next worst drivers are in Rhode Island. Also, maybe we
have an influence of an Island and also California, but
we're the worst. We're the worst. According to this this data,
the best drivers in the US are from Arkansas because
they have per one thousand drivers only fourteen point seven.
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We have four times the number of incidents, which means
again accidents to UIs speeding in citations. We have the
highest accident rate forty four point four accidents per thousand.
The only other state about forty is Rhode Island. In California,
they die for second, and then they talk about drunk
driving the District of Columbia. What you expect three point
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six d UIs per thousand drivers. I suspect a lot
of politicians and members of Congress that get pulled over
for DUI in the District of Columbia probably get to pass.
But that's not why I think we have the worst drivers.
I'll tell you why I think we have the worst drivers.
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I watch how other drivers drive. And one of the
things that drives me nuts about Massachusetts drivers, and I
guess we're talking Boston drivers, is this and I wonder
how many of you can identify with this. You're sitting
at a traffic light, you're maybe the sixth or seventh
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car from the traffic light, and the traffic light turns
green or the arrow gives you you can turn left,
whatever turns green. How long does it take for you
to move if you're the sixth or seventh car, Well,
that's determined by how quickly the first, second, third, fourth,
fifth car move. And wherever I am, and this morning,
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I was on Lake Street in Brighton. I was about
the sixth or seventh car back, and of course the
traffic light turned green, and it wasn't like the intersection
was blocked. The driver at the top just stood this,
didn't move. Finally, after about five or ten seconds, they
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eased into the intersection and they took a left, and
then the driver was right behind kind of eased through
the intersection straight. And of course by time I got
to the intersection, I was a six or seventh driver.
The light is red. Now I'm put in the position
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I didn't run the red light because I'm not crazy,
but there's no reason for me to be stopped at
that red light. If the driver's in front of me,
we're a little more aggressive. So I think our problem
in Massachusetts is not that we're too aggressive, that we
speed too much, that we get into too many accidents.
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I think the problem is we're not aggressive enough. It's
as simple as that. When that light turns green, if
you're sitting and you're at the first car, you're going
to get through, even if you wait until the last second,
and when it turns yellow, you'll be able to go
through on the yellow, but no one else will get through.
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Then you have the people in Massachusetts who have to
roll into the intersection which is blocked. Okay, you can't
get through the intersection. You roll into the intersection and
you block I was driving into Boston. I was riding
into Boston on Saturday night. Come all avenue, you know
what the ritz is. You take the right there and
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come aalth Avenue right at the public garden, and all
of these people, one car, two cars will get through.
Why because people are blocking the intersection. Now, in New York,
if you block the box, you're going to pay. You
are going to pay a hefty fine. And as a
matter of fact, there are plenty of police officers. But
in Massachusetts and certainly in Boston. The administration wants to
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make it miserable in drivers, and we're stupid enough as
drivers to make it miserable upon ourselves. So what I
want to do is I want to open up the
phone lines and ask you do you think we have
good drivers in message bad drivers? I think we have
bad drivers. Because if you're sitting there and the light
turns green in the middle of the morning commute, what
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in God's name do you need to go forward? What
are you doing in your car that when it turns
green you don't see the green light? Why do you stop?
Why do you delay? Okay? And of course the other
one is you're on Route nine somewhere and all of
a sudden you hear in the distance a siren. Someone's
going to the hospital. It could be your mother, it
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could be your father, could be your brother, your sister.
Would anyone like move through the intersection against a red
light to get out of the way of the ambulance,
to allow that poor person who's in the back of
the ambulance maybe they have a chance at life. No way,
no way, because even if there's nothing coming, they will
sit there holding on to dear life, to that steering
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wheel and hoping that somehow the act the ambulance that's
coming behind them will go up on the sidewalk somehow
and get around them. But will they take a right
and get out of the way and maybe they may
have to like get them to work two or three
minutes late. Nope, they're gonna sit there and they're gonna
wait for that ambulance and they're gonna wait for the
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intershactions the light to turn green, and then still they'll
hesitate going through. We are the worst drivers in America.
We're selfish. All we care about is us getting through
the light. We're not thinking about moving through the light
as when it's safe. I don't want you to run
through the light and get t boned. Move through the
light when it turns green. Look both ways, just like
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your mother told you, get to the light and allow
people behind you also to get to the light. That's
my complaint, and I think that we're bad drivers because
we're not aggressive enough when I say be aggressive. Don't
be aggressive when the light's red. Oh no, no, be
aggressive when the light turns green and it's time for
you to go, because there's people be behind you who
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are probably honking their horn at you, and it's probably
me six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six
one seven, nine thirty. Let's have at it. And if
you disagree and you think that we're too aggressive, plot,
feel free to bring it on. We're coming back on
night Side right after this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Get to the phones. Let us get to the phones.
Going first up to Warren down to the South coast.
Hey Warren, how are you tonight? Hey?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Dan? Yeah, first off, Merry Christmas, Very Christmas to you,
the best of the holidays. Yeah, I drive all over
Rhode Island in Massachusetts. I've had two for my jobs.
Yeah that I've had, and yeah, I've seen there is
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a reason why, you know, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are
by far the worst drivers. And I think it's a
lot to do with congestion. You know where like if
you go into Boston, Boston was not made as a
driving town. It was more of a horse and buggy
walking around kind of city. And that really contributes to
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why it's, you know, the drivers so bad because it's
so congested. I mean, in Fall River, you wouldn't believe
what I see down there. I've seen literally the worst
kind of driving, you know, known the man. I've seen
people go wrong way on the one way, you know.
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I've seen you know, like I go through a couple
traffic lights on the way on the way home. Yeah,
and I've seen people just blow right through you know,
you know, you know kids on.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
These careful you got you, they don't stop.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I've seen people not stop, and I've seen really
bad habits. One thing that drives me nuts is like
if I'm driving on the highway and you get someone
coming on to the highway, they don't increase seed like
they're like they're driving like they're driving on a on
a back country road somewhere, and they're doing thirty miles
an hour and they don't increase seed. And so like
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if you're in the if you're in the right lane
and you and you're doing you know, say sixty sixty five,
you come up on them very very quickly, and you
have to make a split second decision. God forbid, if
you have a you know, a truck or a car
on the side of you, Yeah, you know, I mean,
that's I mean, I can I mean we can probably
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trade ripes, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So, so would you agree with me that we're bad
drivers because we're not aggressive enough? I mean I'm just.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Saying yeah, I mean, yeah, there are there are a
lot of very cautious people out there, like overly cautious.
I mean, Paul River is pretty much an aging, you
know community. There's a lot of elderly in there. So
like if you get behind someone who is in their seventies,
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eighties or even nineties. I have a I have a
neighbor who's in the in the in their nineties and
they still arrive.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, you get.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Behind them, and you know, you might be going down
the road. It might take you. You know, it might
take you five minutes when it took you a minute,
you know before to get down the road.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So you know.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
So, but anyway, I get.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
There's there's a push. There's a push in Boston to
basically you know, look, the mayor has decided that she
wants to get cars out of the city.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Bike lanes, oh yeah, bike lanes everywhere.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
The last the last couple of times I've been in
Boston for a concerts and all stuff like that. I mean,
I forget where it is, but there's like one concert
hallway and there's literally a bike lane right in the
middle of the middle of the road.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like, that's Ken that's Ken Moore Square. They've had that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I couldn't believe that. I was like, you gotta be
kidneys on this. And then they.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They're they're on a jihad. They're on ah. Of course
in Boston, and the automobile people who rely on automobiles
better wake the hell up because if they don't, they're
going to find out that automobiles will soon be eliminated
from Boston congestion.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But I also think it's also bad planning. I mean,
there's a lot of questionable intersections in like in Boston,
in the like in the cities like Providence is one
where you know, there are some very questionable it's you know,
you know place you know places where you know traffic
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goes through, and you're kind of like, you know, why
is this set up like this?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You know? So I hear you Ward, thanks for getting
us going here. Appreciated.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Okay, thank you. Merry Christmas again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Mary Christmas, right back at you. Let me go to
marry and Newton. Marry you next night side welcome Mary
and Newton. Now you're there. If you're not, I'm going
to put you on hold.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yes I am here, Dan, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I almost lost you there. Mary, thanks for picking up.
Go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Dan. Now I'm here. Yeah. I do agree one hundred.
It is bad, severely bad Massachusetts drivers, along with out
of status. And believe me, I have seen it day
in and day out, going to work or not. And
regardless of what the city does, spending money going around
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putting up all these signs, it is the driver one,
regardless what city, what telling you're in, regardless I sit
behind cars, the light is green and nobody moves, and
when you blow the morn or something, they look at
you like.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
You're the wrong ones.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
You're the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Did you you're in culta that you have the audacity
to wake people up. I know that. I know that.
I know the look Mary, Believe me, I know the look.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I see them on the cell phones day in the
hand in front of their face. We're in the minds
who gave them the license. They don't see what in
front of them. I don't care what signs you put
up on anything. They don't see anything or anyone do
eating sandwiches. They got the elbows on the steeling wheel,
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and I'm told to pull it by the police. They
have to witness this. They don't have enough to be everywhere,
and they have to witness this. How do they have
enough police officers.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
To witness all this?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I complain to the police when I see something, I
say something, Well, how are they gonna see that? How
many of them get away with that and get go
out and kill people? They're not the only ones on
the road. What are they thinking?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Who gave them the license?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, they're not all. Mary. Thank you for joining us,
and I thank you for your testimony and I agree
with you totally. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, Mary, Oh,
same to you again.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Thank you very much for taking my call. Thank you
very welcome.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Thanks for calling in. Good night. Let me keep rolling here.
Gonna go next to Chris, who's in Boston. Chris, you're
next time night, So I go ahead, get you in
here before the news break.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Hey, damn, happy holiday.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What do you sell? What's on a holiday? Do you celebrate.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Christmas?
Speaker 10 (16:15):
It's given New Year?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Well, I'm gonna wish you a merry Christmas, okay, because.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I'm going with the flow.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, no, I'm with you on that. But you know what,
what in September when they have Labor Day and you
say goodbye, don't you say that people have a nice
Labor Day and all of that, they don't say. I know,
they say happy Labor Day. So I'm into like whatever
you celebrate. If you celebrate Christmas, I want to. I
want to wish you a very merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Merry Christmas to you too, Thank you appreciate it. I drive, say,
five six days a week, I'm a chauffeur and not
seeing it all all happen all the time. These people,
the way they drive. Reason why Massachusetts drivers are unsafe
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because of their ignorance of their drive and they do
not follow the rules of the road. They constantly cause
an accident but have a lot of road rage. Oh
wait a minute, we also got illegal immigrants who now
have licenses.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
That's another reason why.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
And it's just people just don't have respect for other
human beings. They don't have respect for the law, they
don't respect the rules of the road. They drive like
they fit a rage and somebody doing the right thing,
you know, it's like they honk the horns. It's just
like exactly what you said, Dan, every time that light
turns green, you're honk a horn and they look at
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you like what it's like, no move?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Are you see minded?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Green light means green, red.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Means stop, you know, and then when they stop moving.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
They they start driving. So I'm with you totally.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
This is exactly how what I believe. And I just
there comes to a point in time where you just say,
what are you thinking? If look, if you're out at
noontime on a Thursday. Okay, maybe you're you're you're retired,
maybe you're unemployed, but if you're driving at nine o'clock
on a Tuesday morning, I got to assume you're going
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to work or you're going somewhere. And why do you
want to tie other people up?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
That's what it always gives exactly exactly, you know what
the things that people good at doing, Dan, they like
to annoy people. Honest to god, I feel that Boston
is an unhealthy city because it's just too much stressed,
too much problems. People are just too how you say,
traumatic and problematic and cause other people problems instead of
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respecting other people. But you know, but yes, I totally,
totally agreed that Massachusetts definitely is is the number one
of the worst drivers.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
A right, Chris. I appreciate the backup and the support. Tonight.
You call my show anytime. I like you.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Okay, God you take care, Dan.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Thanks man, Merry Christmas. Right back at you. Talk to
you soon, Eric, you too, Thank you, all right, thank
you much. We take quick break at the news at
the bottom of the hour. I have one line in
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
and six one, seven, nine, ten thirty. Let's light them up.
Were the worst drivers? I think we are, but not
because of what the statistics show. I think we're the
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worst drivers because we're not aggressive enough. I don't want
you running red lights. But when the damn light turns green,
step on it, look both ways and step on it.
Simple as that. We'll be back on night Side right
after this.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Back to the call as we go here, as we
work our way through Tuesday night, Craig, Craig your next time. Hi,
welcome evening.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I want to say, Ohio, driving, I'm sure it's nothing
compared to Boston's, but uh a lot. Once a week,
maybe I'll pull up behind someone and you know, the
red light turns the green and they're sitting there and
it's it's called consideration. They're on the stinking cell phone.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, and.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
You know it's uh, you know, like I had to
go in to Columbus this morning. I take veterans to
their doctor's appointments over there. But I just see, you know,
there's three lanes, break lights, put on your turn signal
when you have to get over the eggs relatively easy.
And you know, if you're in a rush to get
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to work, if you're not fifteen minutes early, your late
dude taught her into it, you know, just leave earlier.
And as far as the Merry Christmas, I drop out
a Christmas card to my boss to eight Ria said
Merry Christmas. Not go ahead. He looked at it. I
said I could have been woke and said happy Holidays,
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Love Craig. He goes, no, this is met.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, yeah, I'm happy that Merry Christmas is making a comeback.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
For sure, But uh, good luck with boss and driving Danah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'll tell you it's it's a losing battle there there.
They need to be a little bit more considerate. It's
as simple as that. I would argue a little bit
more aggressive. Thank you, Craig, always great to your voice.
Thanks man, talk.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Soon, Take care now, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Six seven, four thirty, triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty.
Let me go down to sand in tone to Dave
and sand in tone. Dave, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
It got to disagree with you, Dan. I agree that
you're driving. There is really can nerve wrecking, but it's
not near as deadly as what's down here.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
They don't have a steep speed limit. There is no speed.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Lift car accidents every year in Texas.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, there is no speed limit. Then there is none.
I couldn't I can't believe. I say my prayers every
time I get out in the dark car with my door.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
There's no speed limit anyway. There's no speed limit anywhere
or when you get out of the open road.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Just about close to the city, not the open road,
but on these six lane highways, six lanes on each side. Hey, yu,
and these cars go by you like you're standards still
and you're doing the speed limit of seventy five. Really yeah, interesting, interesting,
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it's it's really frightening being on these highways, folks. Folks
and Texas are used to it, but I'm not. I'm
used to like you are making the people go in
the red light or something.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But well, that's that's the thing that's really frustrating is
that you're sitting in a light. You're seven or eight
cars back, you know how long the light is, and
you say to yourself, look, all they want to do
is just get through this light, because but yeah, they
sit there, they don't move and as they say, even
when ambulance is coming up from behind him there, they're
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frozen in fear. David, I don't know. We are the
worst drivers in America in my opinion. In my opinion,
we'll see.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
My wife drove for a little while down here when
they went fire like that, she yelling at the male's
only half full.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
All right, pal, you be careful down there. We want
to lose. Don't want to lose you.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I made my daughter put a rosary
on her window corner rear view.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Whatever works, whatever works. I believe in that stuff. Okay,
thanks Dave, we talk soon. Good night, have a great one.
Let me go next to Phil a little closer to home.
Phil is in wrinth Them. I know we're rinth Them?
Is Phil your next night side? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, I do agree with you that we have the
worst drivers in America. I don't agree that we're too
we need to be more aggressive. I think we're too
aggressive period. But at lights, which is lazy, we're just distracted,
We're we're not paying attention. And then when somebody gives
us a little two you know, you know, give me
a give a little people in your horn, you know, hey,
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get moving. They look at you like the other guys
you know on the radio sets. They look at you like,
what are you at? Suirp, Come on, let's go. It's
it's a green light, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I don't want anybody to blow through an intersection, But
it seems to me that if you sit there and
you realize that the traffic on the in the in
the intersection is not going through, just go. The light's green.
Why did you go? You're going to get through the intersection,
But why don't you get through the intersection so that
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a few more people can get through it? That's that's
really the point I'm trying to make. I think when
you say we're selfish, I think we are selfish as drivers.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, I agree with you on that. I mean I
drive a track of trail through, wasn't it. And I'm
taking an early retirement because I just don't want to
be on the road anymore. There's so many crazy It
doesn't matter what time of day or night. It could
be two three in the morning and people will just
that they're bored and they want to cut in front
of you, you know, break check you. You know, I
don't know if they just have anger issues and they
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want to, you know, just make other people angry because
they're angry. And then you got the people who don't
know what the yield sign means and they either just
come on to the highway at a regular speed expect
you to slow down or move over for them, you know.
I mean, if you want to get in funny, fine,
but just put your foot on the gas pedal and go.
It's as simple as that. But no, oh, come to somebody,
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I think I'll do things.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Don't mess around with don't mess around to people. Run
the big rigs. I mean, come on, they're out there
making sure that there's food and supplies and in grocery stores.
H make their life a little easier. It's as simple
as that. I have a lot of symph get people
who drive big rigs because I know I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, but I mean,
you know, you're hauling forty tons of goods behind you.
Cannot stop on a dime, you know, I mean, and
it takes you forever to accelerate when they slow you down,
you know, And it's like the trucks won't go more
than say sixty eight miles an hour anyways. You know,
it's a safety thing. But you know, I try to
be as considerate as I can on the road for
other people. But I think when they see some people,
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when they see a truck, it's like, oh, here we go.
Tend to play some games. I mean, yeah, I'm just exaggerating,
but that's what it seems like.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I think you're right. I think again, we are selfish
and it exhibits itself in a number of ways, a
number of characterizations. I agree with you as always. Phil,
Thank you very much for calling an interesting perspective. Thanks
so much.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Thanks Thanks having me bight too soon.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Okay, let's keep rolling here. Let me get one we're in.
Don't want to tie people up before the break. Where
will we go next? Let's go to Angelo in Angelo,
you are next on nightside.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Go ahead, sir, Hello Dan Ray.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
I agree with you one hundred percent. There's too many
distracted drivers. I've been sitting in red lights and I
see people looking at their phones, eating their phones, or
reading a book and not paying attention. One time, I
was sitting in lights. Okay, there was a line of
cars in front of me, and the cars that were
in front of that cor already taken off and before
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that cat, you blow the end before.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
They even got to the red light.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
The red light has already changed. It's unbelievable. And I
don't know if you know, I knew the Center Square.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm very familiar with Newton said yes, what do you
want to say about him?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
And believe me, I've seen old people walk through there
with the walks signs of the blinking light. And it
was an old guy walking across the street and there
was a car that came flying right by him. It
did not even slow down. What's the matter with people lately?
I can't believe what I'm seeing lately. I'm seeing a
police officer and then mode of the road with his
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hands with his arms out. The cod's just gonna read
by him like they were ignoring him.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, I said, what a mistake that that can be
a big mistake.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Yeah, And I said, it's a policeman. He's laughing, I mean,
and they.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Said, he says, yeah, you know what it is.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
It's all in their heads.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
They're not paying attention what they're doing. And I had
to say it. I'm a CBL driver and I'm a
nice driver, but I can't believe what I see. And
one time I stopped from an elderly person to walk
across the walk, and you know, the truck seems up high.
So she was walking around the truck and I said,
this lady better turn her head to the left. And
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if she did it, I said, something's gonna happen that
I didn't want want to see in front of my face.
And this car flew right by me. And thank god
that the lady saw that.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
She back backed up right away.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
I said, what is going along with people? Off them?
There's no respect to nothing in the road. And I
could tell you so much I've seen elderly people even
I said, I went across the center once I put
the blank and lights on, the old lady were flying
right by me. Did not even stop. And that was
the whole person. I says, Wow, what.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
A bunch of a bunch of problems, A bunch of
problems here, oh driver, Yeah, okay, how long you've been
driving truck?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (30:00):
Since I've turned sixteen?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Well had you?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And hopefully people will be a little more polite to
the truck drivers because you guys provide all the groceries
that that we need.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
A grocery and people and people don't realize it though,
because of the truck coming down the street and they
they don't realize that that truck can stop like they
can and a dime. And then you go out on
an exit.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I lose you. They you said, you go water on
an exit? What was it like? He dropped off? We
lost him all right? I think he made some great points.
I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Angel excellent points
six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty one
there and one in six one, seven, nine thirty. I
got Glenn, Matt and Jack coming up right after this
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quick break on night Side.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
night Side Studios on w b Z.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
The news radio. Let's finish strong, gonna go to Jack
down of the Cape. Jack on Cape called, Hey Jack,
where about to the Cape?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Again?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Hi? Jack? Where about the Cape?
Speaker 4 (31:08):
If I could ask where I'm in? West West German?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, okay, go ahead, Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Enjoy your topics? Has every night as.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I tang in every name. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
But I'm going to preface my remarks with a quote,
there are no problems. There are only unrealized solutions. Okay,
so well, let's let's go into it. As far as
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the eighteen wheelers that are out there, the twelve, the
twelve wheelers, the you know, these guys that are out
there making our lives work. I have said for decades
there should be uh a national at the government level
that these trucks should have strobe lights on them to
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start flashing green. And what that means is everybody back up.
Let this man do what he needs to do with
men and women. These guys are operating. These guys are operating.
I couldn't drive an eighteener. I just couldn't handle the
the the the stress of the us.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So do you think guy drivers are too aggressive, not
aggressive enough, or just right.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
They're uninformed. Now, Dan, let's go to the day where
we are every so every every person that's out there
driving has a cell phone. And what if we were
to imply that you have to have a driver's app on. Now,
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the driver's app. As we're driving along, all the cell
phones would be communicating. So you're sitting in line waiting
for the light to change. Now the cell phone is
going to be triggered that, Hey, the light is going
to change, So you're going to get a ding ding ding,
get ready to take off, Dan, there are so many
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unrealized solutions. That's my point.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well, I think that's a good point. Let's see if
other people want to react to it. Okay, thanks, Jack,
appreciate your call. Have a great night. All right, we're
going to go next to get rid of Jack. Let's
keep rolling here, going next to Matt and Bright Matt.
You're next to Night Saga. Right ahead.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
Hey, hey, Dan, how are you going?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
We're doing great?
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Go ahead, all right. So here's how I'll take it.
I think that every state has issues with driving and
you know, being distracted. Now, when it comes to some
of the things I heard before with cell phones and
stuff like that. Obviously I can't compare it to but
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I am a huge proponent that you don't have a
drink and drive. You can wait for that text message.
And although people may do that when you're holding up
traffic and you're holding up other people, or you're doing
something that's going against the irregularity of focusing on the road,
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you're putting other people's lives or something of that sort
on some level of risk. Now shmative troops is be
considered because of that the worst or most obnoxious. That's
you know, I guess in the I had to be
a holder then there might be a high risk of that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, well, I think met that the survey that News
we had done was pretty good in terms of valves
between men and women, young and old. Uh, suburban versus
urban and rural. It seems to me like they're trying
their best in this poll. And again, uh, you know,
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I don't necessarily agree with it, but they essentially say that, yeah,
we got a problem in Massachusetts, Matt, I gotta get
a couple more roots. I'm gonna let you run.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Okay, thank you man for no I hear, yeah, I
hear you.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
I just hear it the last not say quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I gotta go, Matt, I gotta go, Thank you, Glad, Glen.
It gets in here. I got less than a minute
for I hated this, but there's four people behind you,
and you're gonna got about fifteen seconds. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Well, I was gonna kill two birds with one stone.
This is what crime is, my gears, that's one bird.
Now I speak English, I don't speak car horn ease.
And people they see that I've got my cane, they
should know that I'm a blind person. Don't beep their home.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Let me do this. I sure change here a couple.
Call back to one and we'll deal with this in
something like, Okay, I'm flat out of it.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Can I call it? What time? I mean?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Rob will tell you. Okay, Glenn, I gotta go. Everybody,
I've done Rob Brooks, great job, Maritea a great job.
When midnight comes, folks, it comes. How much time I
got here? Rob? Oh, I thought you said one minute.
I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, Let's put Glenn
back on. Glenn. I thought he said one minute. Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
All right? Yeah, I know like I'm trying to cross
the street and They're like beeping, little beeps, big loud
horned beaps. Does that mean go? Does that mean move
to down?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Jerk?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Does that mean we hold on? I'm coming. I mean,
I don't know what car Hornese means. I speak English,
not car Hornese. And it's like, you know, we'll say
once in a while to go go go, and I'm like,
well I'm waiting for help, go go, and I fin
they don't go the extra mile, and well nobody does
that anymore. Flap soured on humanity. I mean, it's just
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I don't know if it's just very frustrating. It's not
like it was fifty years ago, you know, when someone
would actually get out of a car and say take
my arm, that could I go to a base?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, I think that it's up to the pedestrians to
basically guide you a little bit. You're you're a disadvantage
clearly as you're trying to cross the street, and people
should be more considerate civil as that. Glad I appreciate
it and bring in a different perspective as always. Sorry
I misread Rob. I thought he said one, yeah, gotta go,
(37:35):
Thank you. All right, I'm gonna try to help other
people in here, get them in as well. Chris in
Eastbridge Water, Chris, go right.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
Ahead, Yes, shootings quick Dan first, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Merry Christmas to you, Chris.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
Number two, all zero one on one, quick thing. And
I see this all the time. People who cut into fuel.
Funeral processions gotta be drawn and quartered. Did I remember
where I was in one three years ago? Somebody almost
took the side off my truck cutting in and then
beat the laid on their horn at me when we
were at a stoplight. I just rolled down the window,
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showed them a funeral tag and yelled at them. And
it was a funeral procession, I said a couple of
other things.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
It's impossible to me to realize that there are people
who want to ignore funeral processions.
Speaker 11 (38:26):
And get mad at you because they did something wrong.
They should put a cop at the back of O's
and they would probably make a fortune writing tickets.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I'm with you. I'm with you, good call. Thanks Chris.
Got to keep going here.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Okay, thank you much, take care of happy holiday.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Save you Merry Christmas. Okay. Uh. John is in New Hampshire.
What do we get left?
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Rob?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
About a minute and a half. Okay, John, want to
take care of you. Go ahead, John, your next.
Speaker 12 (38:53):
Thanks Dan, Merry Christmas, and I thank you how you
are on your show with a thank you my dog
I past eight years ago this past August. But I
disagree with you. I think you guys are to address
of down there. I grew up in Massachusetts, and as
soon as you cross that state line, there's someone within
a second behind you. Everyone is in a rush, just
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like you're saying, if you don't go through that light
too fast, someone's gonna beep.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Saying if you're at the head, John, I'm just saying,
if you're at the head of the line and a
truds green, why not just go through the light?
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Mean what?
Speaker 12 (39:31):
Because I'm gonna do the first thing you're taught when
you when I was send out of the house, stand
is you look both ways before you cross the road
because you've already.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Wants to take How long does it take you to
look both ways?
Speaker 12 (39:42):
Two seconds? Second? One second?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Two?
Speaker 12 (39:46):
But I understand with it. And that's the other thing, Massachusetts.
I don't think you guys are the worst drivers. I've
driven cross country on I seventy three times, coming back
I eighty three times. Connecticut is the worst drivers, and
I'll tell you why. Same thing as Massachusetts, small roads
to any people.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
All Right, Okay, you got the final word in John,
but we're done for the night, so I gotta let
you go. Thanks very much. We'll talk again, okay, Rob,
thank you, Marita, thank you. Our dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. And that's why Peal Charlie Rayes,
who passed fourteen years ago in February, that's why your
pets are her past. They love you and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again, see you again anymore.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Night.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Everybody be on Facebook in a moment, Have a great Wednesday.
Back tomorrow night. Thanks everyone,
It's nice size. I'm Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
So today I had to drive early this morning, well
for me early this morning, it's nine o'clock when you
work until midnight, and once again I was reminded how
bad Massachusetts drivers are. Okay, now, it just so happened
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that on this very day there was a report, a
scientific report. My feeling is a little more subjective, but
I suspect some of you might feel the same way.
A lending Tree, a lot of these companies now do surveys,
and this seemed to be a pretty legitimate survey by
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a company called lending Tree, and basically they concluded that,
according to the latest lending Tree study, it seems pretty scientific,
Massachusetts had the worst drivers in the US. Well, Arkansas
has the best. Now Massachusetts has the worst drivers in
the US because from November fifth of twenty twenty three
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through November fourth of twenty twenty four, that's a year
Massachusetts drivers had sixty one point one incidents, which meant accidents, DUI,
speeding and citations per one thousand drivers. So you have
about a six percent chance if you're a driver in
Massachusetts in any given year to get into an accident,
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have a DUI as speeding or a citation. Okay, the
next worst drivers are in Rhode Island. Also, maybe we
have an influence of an Island and also California, but
we're the worst. We're the worst. According to this this data,
the best drivers in the US are from Arkansas because
they have per one thousand drivers only fourteen point seven.
(02:00):
We have four times the number of incidents, which means
again accidents to UIs speeding in citations. We have the
highest accident rate forty four point four accidents per thousand.
The only other state about forty is Rhode Island. In California,
they die for second, and then they talk about drunk
driving the District of Columbia. What you expect three point
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six d UIs per thousand drivers. I suspect a lot
of politicians and members of Congress that get pulled over
for DUI in the District of Columbia probably get to pass.
But that's not why I think we have the worst drivers.
I'll tell you why I think we have the worst drivers.
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I watch how other drivers drive. And one of the
things that drives me nuts about Massachusetts drivers, and I
guess we're talking Boston drivers, is this and I wonder
how many of you can identify with this. You're sitting
at a traffic light, you're maybe the sixth or seventh
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car from the traffic light, and the traffic light turns
green or the arrow gives you you can turn left,
whatever turns green. How long does it take for you
to move if you're the sixth or seventh car, Well,
that's determined by how quickly the first, second, third, fourth,
fifth car move. And wherever I am, and this morning,
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I was on Lake Street in Brighton. I was about
the sixth or seventh car back, and of course the
traffic light turned green, and it wasn't like the intersection
was blocked. The driver at the top just stood this,
didn't move. Finally, after about five or ten seconds, they
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eased into the intersection and they took a left, and
then the driver was right behind kind of eased through
the intersection straight. And of course by time I got
to the intersection, I was a six or seventh driver.
The light is red. Now I'm put in the position
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I didn't run the red light because I'm not crazy,
but there's no reason for me to be stopped at
that red light. If the driver's in front of me,
we're a little more aggressive. So I think our problem
in Massachusetts is not that we're too aggressive, that we
speed too much, that we get into too many accidents.
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I think the problem is we're not aggressive enough. It's
as simple as that. When that light turns green, if
you're sitting and you're at the first car, you're going
to get through, even if you wait until the last second,
and when it turns yellow, you'll be able to go
through on the yellow, but no one else will get through.
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Then you have the people in Massachusetts who have to
roll into the intersection which is blocked. Okay, you can't
get through the intersection. You roll into the intersection and
you block I was driving into Boston. I was riding
into Boston on Saturday night. Come all avenue, you know
what the ritz is. You take the right there and
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come aalth Avenue right at the public garden, and all
of these people, one car, two cars will get through.
Why because people are blocking the intersection. Now, in New York,
if you block the box, you're going to pay. You
are going to pay a hefty fine. And as a
matter of fact, there are plenty of police officers. But
in Massachusetts and certainly in Boston. The administration wants to
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make it miserable in drivers, and we're stupid enough as
drivers to make it miserable upon ourselves. So what I
want to do is I want to open up the
phone lines and ask you do you think we have
good drivers in message bad drivers? I think we have
bad drivers. Because if you're sitting there and the light
turns green in the middle of the morning commute, what
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in God's name do you need to go forward? What
are you doing in your car that when it turns
green you don't see the green light? Why do you stop?
Why do you delay? Okay? And of course the other
one is you're on Route nine somewhere and all of
a sudden you hear in the distance a siren. Someone's
going to the hospital. It could be your mother, it
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could be your father, could be your brother, your sister.
Would anyone like move through the intersection against a red
light to get out of the way of the ambulance,
to allow that poor person who's in the back of
the ambulance maybe they have a chance at life. No way,
no way, because even if there's nothing coming, they will
sit there holding on to dear life, to that steering
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wheel and hoping that somehow the act the ambulance that's
coming behind them will go up on the sidewalk somehow
and get around them. But will they take a right
and get out of the way and maybe they may
have to like get them to work two or three
minutes late. Nope, they're gonna sit there and they're gonna
wait for that ambulance and they're gonna wait for the
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intershactions the light to turn green, and then still they'll
hesitate going through. We are the worst drivers in America.
We're selfish. All we care about is us getting through
the light. We're not thinking about moving through the light
as when it's safe. I don't want you to run
through the light and get t boned. Move through the
light when it turns green. Look both ways, just like
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your mother told you, get to the light and allow
people behind you also to get to the light. That's
my complaint, and I think that we're bad drivers because
we're not aggressive enough when I say be aggressive. Don't
be aggressive when the light's red. Oh no, no, be
aggressive when the light turns green and it's time for
you to go, because there's people be behind you who
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are probably honking their horn at you, and it's probably
me six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six
one seven, nine thirty. Let's have at it. And if
you disagree and you think that we're too aggressive, plot,
feel free to bring it on. We're coming back on
night Side right after this.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Get to the phones. Let us get to the phones.
Going first up to Warren down to the South coast.
Hey Warren, how are you tonight? Hey?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Dan? Yeah, first off, Merry Christmas, Very Christmas to you,
the best of the holidays. Yeah, I drive all over
Rhode Island in Massachusetts. I've had two for my jobs.
Yeah that I've had, and yeah, I've seen there is
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a reason why, you know, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are
by far the worst drivers. And I think it's a
lot to do with congestion. You know where like if
you go into Boston, Boston was not made as a
driving town. It was more of a horse and buggy
walking around kind of city. And that really contributes to
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why it's, you know, the drivers so bad because it's
so congested. I mean, in Fall River, you wouldn't believe
what I see down there. I've seen literally the worst
kind of driving, you know, known the man. I've seen
people go wrong way on the one way, you know.
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I've seen you know, like I go through a couple
traffic lights on the way on the way home. Yeah,
and I've seen people just blow right through you know,
you know, you know kids on.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
These careful you got you, they don't stop.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
And I've seen people not stop, and I've seen really
bad habits. One thing that drives me nuts is like
if I'm driving on the highway and you get someone
coming on to the highway, they don't increase seed like
they're like they're driving like they're driving on a on
a back country road somewhere, and they're doing thirty miles
an hour and they don't increase seed. And so like
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if you're in the if you're in the right lane
and you and you're doing you know, say sixty sixty five,
you come up on them very very quickly, and you
have to make a split second decision. God forbid, if
you have a you know, a truck or a car
on the side of you, Yeah, you know, I mean,
that's I mean, I can I mean we can probably
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trade ripes, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
So, so would you agree with me that we're bad
drivers because we're not aggressive enough? I mean I'm just.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Saying yeah, I mean, yeah, there are there are a
lot of very cautious people out there, like overly cautious.
I mean, Paul River is pretty much an aging, you
know community. There's a lot of elderly in there. So
like if you get behind someone who is in their seventies,
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eighties or even nineties. I have a I have a
neighbor who's in the in the in their nineties and
they still arrive.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, you get.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Behind them, and you know, you might be going down
the road. It might take you. You know, it might
take you five minutes when it took you a minute,
you know before to get down the road.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
So you know.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
So, but anyway, I get.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
There's there's a push. There's a push in Boston to
basically you know, look, the mayor has decided that she
wants to get cars out of the city.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Bike lanes, oh yeah, bike lanes everywhere.
Speaker 5 (12:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
The last the last couple of times I've been in
Boston for a concerts and all stuff like that. I mean,
I forget where it is, but there's like one concert
hallway and there's literally a bike lane right in the
middle of the middle of the road.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like, that's Ken that's Ken Moore Square. They've had that.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I couldn't believe that. I was like, you gotta be
kidneys on this. And then they.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
They're they're on a jihad. They're on ah. Of course
in Boston, and the automobile people who rely on automobiles
better wake the hell up because if they don't, they're
going to find out that automobiles will soon be eliminated
from Boston congestion.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But I also think it's also bad planning. I mean,
there's a lot of questionable intersections in like in Boston,
in the like in the cities like Providence is one
where you know, there are some very questionable it's you know,
you know place you know places where you know traffic
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goes through, and you're kind of like, you know, why
is this set up like this?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
You know? So I hear you Ward, thanks for getting
us going here. Appreciated.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Okay, thank you. Merry Christmas again.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Mary Christmas, right back at you. Let me go to
marry and Newton. Marry you next night side welcome Mary
and Newton. Now you're there. If you're not, I'm going
to put you on hold.
Speaker 7 (13:44):
Yes I am here, Dan, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I almost lost you there. Mary, thanks for picking up.
Go right ahead.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (13:55):
Dan. Now I'm here. Yeah. I do agree one hundred.
It is bad, severely bad Massachusetts drivers, along with out
of status. And believe me, I have seen it day
in and day out, going to work or not. And
regardless of what the city does, spending money going around
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putting up all these signs, it is the driver one,
regardless what city, what telling you're in, regardless I sit
behind cars, the light is green and nobody moves, and
when you blow the morn or something, they look at
you like.
Speaker 8 (14:34):
You're the wrong ones.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
You're the bad ones.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Did you you're in culta that you have the audacity
to wake people up. I know that. I know that.
I know the look Mary, Believe me, I know the look.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I see them on the cell phones day in the
hand in front of their face. We're in the minds
who gave them the license. They don't see what in
front of them. I don't care what signs you put
up on anything. They don't see anything or anyone do
eating sandwiches. They got the elbows on the steeling wheel,
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and I'm told to pull it by the police. They
have to witness this. They don't have enough to be everywhere,
and they have to witness this. How do they have
enough police officers.
Speaker 8 (15:20):
To witness all this?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
I complain to the police when I see something, I
say something, Well, how are they gonna see that? How
many of them get away with that and get go
out and kill people? They're not the only ones on
the road. What are they thinking?
Speaker 8 (15:37):
Who gave them the license?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Yeah, they're not all. Mary. Thank you for joining us,
and I thank you for your testimony and I agree
with you totally. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, Mary, Oh,
same to you again.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
Thank you very much for taking my call. Thank you
very welcome.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Thanks for calling in. Good night. Let me keep rolling here.
Gonna go next to Chris, who's in Boston. Chris, you're
next time night, So I go ahead, get you in
here before the news break.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Hey, damn, happy holiday.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
How you doing?
Speaker 2 (16:09):
What do you sell? What's on a holiday? Do you celebrate.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Christmas?
Speaker 10 (16:15):
It's given New Year?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Well, I'm gonna wish you a merry Christmas, okay, because.
Speaker 9 (16:21):
I'm going with the flow.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, no, I'm with you on that. But you know what,
what in September when they have Labor Day and you
say goodbye, don't you say that people have a nice
Labor Day and all of that, they don't say. I know,
they say happy Labor Day. So I'm into like whatever
you celebrate. If you celebrate Christmas, I want to. I
want to wish you a very merry Christmas.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
Merry Christmas to you too, Thank you appreciate it. I drive, say,
five six days a week, I'm a chauffeur and not
seeing it all all happen all the time. These people,
the way they drive. Reason why Massachusetts drivers are unsafe
(17:05):
because of their ignorance of their drive and they do
not follow the rules of the road. They constantly cause
an accident but have a lot of road rage. Oh
wait a minute, we also got illegal immigrants who now
have licenses.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
That's another reason why.
Speaker 9 (17:25):
And it's just people just don't have respect for other
human beings. They don't have respect for the law, they
don't respect the rules of the road. They drive like
they fit a rage and somebody doing the right thing,
you know, it's like they honk the horns. It's just
like exactly what you said, Dan, every time that light
turns green, you're honk a horn and they look at
(17:45):
you like what it's like, no move?
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Are you see minded?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Green light means green, red.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Means stop, you know, and then when they stop moving.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
They they start driving. So I'm with you totally.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
This is exactly how what I believe. And I just
there comes to a point in time where you just say,
what are you thinking? If look, if you're out at
noontime on a Thursday. Okay, maybe you're you're you're retired,
maybe you're unemployed, but if you're driving at nine o'clock
on a Tuesday morning, I got to assume you're going
(18:23):
to work or you're going somewhere. And why do you
want to tie other people up?
Speaker 9 (18:27):
That's what it always gives exactly exactly, you know what
the things that people good at doing, Dan, they like
to annoy people. Honest to god, I feel that Boston
is an unhealthy city because it's just too much stressed,
too much problems. People are just too how you say,
traumatic and problematic and cause other people problems instead of
(18:51):
respecting other people. But you know, but yes, I totally,
totally agreed that Massachusetts definitely is is the number one
of the worst drivers.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
A right, Chris. I appreciate the backup and the support. Tonight.
You call my show anytime. I like you.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Okay, God you take care, Dan.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Thanks man, Merry Christmas. Right back at you. Talk to
you soon, Eric, you too, Thank you, all right, thank
you much. We take quick break at the news at
the bottom of the hour. I have one line in
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
and six one, seven, nine, ten thirty. Let's light them up.
Were the worst drivers? I think we are, but not
because of what the statistics show. I think we're the
(19:33):
worst drivers because we're not aggressive enough. I don't want
you running red lights. But when the damn light turns green,
step on it, look both ways and step on it.
Simple as that. We'll be back on night Side right
after this.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Back to the call as we go here, as we
work our way through Tuesday night, Craig, Craig your next time. Hi,
welcome evening.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
I want to say, Ohio, driving, I'm sure it's nothing
compared to Boston's, but uh a lot. Once a week,
maybe I'll pull up behind someone and you know, the
red light turns the green and they're sitting there and
it's it's called consideration. They're on the stinking cell phone.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, and.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
You know it's uh, you know, like I had to
go in to Columbus this morning. I take veterans to
their doctor's appointments over there. But I just see, you know,
there's three lanes, break lights, put on your turn signal
when you have to get over the eggs relatively easy.
And you know, if you're in a rush to get
(20:48):
to work, if you're not fifteen minutes early, your late
dude taught her into it, you know, just leave earlier.
And as far as the Merry Christmas, I drop out
a Christmas card to my boss to eight Ria said
Merry Christmas. Not go ahead. He looked at it. I
said I could have been woke and said happy Holidays,
(21:11):
Love Craig. He goes, no, this is met.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah, yeah, I'm happy that Merry Christmas is making a comeback.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
For sure, But uh, good luck with boss and driving Danah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'll tell you it's it's a losing battle there there.
They need to be a little bit more considerate. It's
as simple as that. I would argue a little bit
more aggressive. Thank you, Craig, always great to your voice.
Thanks man, talk.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Soon, Take care now, all right?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Six seven, four thirty, triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty.
Let me go down to sand in tone to Dave
and sand in tone. Dave, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
It got to disagree with you, Dan. I agree that
you're driving. There is really can nerve wrecking, but it's
not near as deadly as what's down here.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
They don't have a steep speed limit. There is no speed.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Lift car accidents every year in Texas.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, there is no speed limit. Then there is none.
I couldn't I can't believe. I say my prayers every
time I get out in the dark car with my door.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
There's no speed limit anyway. There's no speed limit anywhere
or when you get out of the open road.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Just about close to the city, not the open road,
but on these six lane highways, six lanes on each side. Hey, yu,
and these cars go by you like you're standards still
and you're doing the speed limit of seventy five. Really yeah, interesting, interesting,
(23:03):
it's it's really frightening being on these highways, folks. Folks
and Texas are used to it, but I'm not. I'm
used to like you are making the people go in
the red light or something.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But well, that's that's the thing that's really frustrating is
that you're sitting in a light. You're seven or eight
cars back, you know how long the light is, and
you say to yourself, look, all they want to do
is just get through this light, because but yeah, they
sit there, they don't move and as they say, even
when ambulance is coming up from behind him there, they're
(23:39):
frozen in fear. David, I don't know. We are the
worst drivers in America in my opinion. In my opinion,
we'll see.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
My wife drove for a little while down here when
they went fire like that, she yelling at the male's
only half full.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I like that.
Speaker 6 (23:58):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
All right, pal, you be careful down there. We want
to lose. Don't want to lose you.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I made my daughter put a rosary
on her window corner rear view.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Whatever works, whatever works. I believe in that stuff. Okay,
thanks Dave, we talk soon. Good night, have a great one.
Let me go next to Phil a little closer to home.
Phil is in wrinth Them. I know we're rinth Them?
Is Phil your next night side? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Dad?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Yeah, I do agree with you that we have the
worst drivers in America. I don't agree that we're too
we need to be more aggressive. I think we're too
aggressive period. But at lights, which is lazy, we're just distracted,
We're we're not paying attention. And then when somebody gives
us a little two you know, you know, give me
a give a little people in your horn, you know, hey,
(24:50):
get moving. They look at you like the other guys
you know on the radio sets. They look at you like,
what are you at? Suirp, Come on, let's go. It's
it's a green light, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I don't want anybody to blow through an intersection, But
it seems to me that if you sit there and
you realize that the traffic on the in the in
the intersection is not going through, just go. The light's green.
Why did you go? You're going to get through the intersection,
But why don't you get through the intersection so that
(25:20):
a few more people can get through it? That's that's
really the point I'm trying to make. I think when
you say we're selfish, I think we are selfish as drivers.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Yeah, I agree with you on that. I mean I
drive a track of trail through, wasn't it. And I'm
taking an early retirement because I just don't want to
be on the road anymore. There's so many crazy It
doesn't matter what time of day or night. It could
be two three in the morning and people will just
that they're bored and they want to cut in front
of you, you know, break check you. You know, I
don't know if they just have anger issues and they
(25:50):
want to, you know, just make other people angry because
they're angry. And then you got the people who don't
know what the yield sign means and they either just
come on to the highway at a regular speed expect
you to slow down or move over for them, you know.
I mean, if you want to get in funny, fine,
but just put your foot on the gas pedal and go.
It's as simple as that. But no, oh, come to somebody,
(26:11):
I think I'll do things.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Don't mess around with don't mess around to people. Run
the big rigs. I mean, come on, they're out there
making sure that there's food and supplies and in grocery stores.
H make their life a little easier. It's as simple
as that. I have a lot of symph get people
who drive big rigs because I know I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, but I mean,
you know, you're hauling forty tons of goods behind you.
Cannot stop on a dime, you know, I mean, and
it takes you forever to accelerate when they slow you down,
you know, And it's like the trucks won't go more
than say sixty eight miles an hour anyways. You know,
it's a safety thing. But you know, I try to
be as considerate as I can on the road for
other people. But I think when they see some people,
(26:54):
when they see a truck, it's like, oh, here we go.
Tend to play some games. I mean, yeah, I'm just exaggerating,
but that's what it seems like.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I think you're right. I think again, we are selfish
and it exhibits itself in a number of ways, a
number of characterizations. I agree with you as always. Phil,
Thank you very much for calling an interesting perspective. Thanks
so much.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Thanks Thanks having me bight too soon.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Okay, let's keep rolling here. Let me get one we're in.
Don't want to tie people up before the break. Where
will we go next? Let's go to Angelo in Angelo,
you are next on nightside.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Go ahead, sir, Hello Dan Ray.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
I agree with you one hundred percent. There's too many
distracted drivers. I've been sitting in red lights and I
see people looking at their phones, eating their phones, or
reading a book and not paying attention. One time, I
was sitting in lights. Okay, there was a line of
cars in front of me, and the cars that were
in front of that cor already taken off and before
(27:54):
that cat, you blow the end before.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
They even got to the red light.
Speaker 8 (27:57):
The red light has already changed. It's unbelievable. And I
don't know if you know, I knew the Center Square.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm very familiar with Newton said yes, what do you
want to say about him?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
And believe me, I've seen old people walk through there
with the walks signs of the blinking light. And it
was an old guy walking across the street and there
was a car that came flying right by him. It
did not even slow down. What's the matter with people lately?
I can't believe what I'm seeing lately. I'm seeing a
police officer and then mode of the road with his
(28:32):
hands with his arms out. The cod's just gonna read
by him like they were ignoring him.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah, I said, what a mistake that that can be
a big mistake.
Speaker 8 (28:45):
Yeah, And I said, it's a policeman. He's laughing, I mean,
and they.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
Said, he says, yeah, you know what it is.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
It's all in their heads.
Speaker 8 (28:51):
They're not paying attention what they're doing. And I had
to say it. I'm a CBL driver and I'm a
nice driver, but I can't believe what I see. And
one time I stopped from an elderly person to walk
across the walk, and you know, the truck seems up high.
So she was walking around the truck and I said,
this lady better turn her head to the left. And
(29:13):
if she did it, I said, something's gonna happen that
I didn't want want to see in front of my face.
And this car flew right by me. And thank god
that the lady saw that.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
She back backed up right away.
Speaker 8 (29:25):
I said, what is going along with people? Off them?
There's no respect to nothing in the road. And I
could tell you so much I've seen elderly people even
I said, I went across the center once I put
the blank and lights on, the old lady were flying
right by me. Did not even stop. And that was
the whole person. I says, Wow, what.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
A bunch of a bunch of problems, A bunch of
problems here, oh driver, Yeah, okay, how long you've been
driving truck?
Speaker 3 (29:59):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (30:00):
Since I've turned sixteen?
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Well had you?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And hopefully people will be a little more polite to
the truck drivers because you guys provide all the groceries
that that we need.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
A grocery and people and people don't realize it though,
because of the truck coming down the street and they
they don't realize that that truck can stop like they
can and a dime. And then you go out on
an exit.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I lose you. They you said, you go water on
an exit? What was it like? He dropped off? We
lost him all right? I think he made some great points.
I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Angel excellent points
six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty one
there and one in six one, seven, nine thirty. I
got Glenn, Matt and Jack coming up right after this
(30:49):
quick break on night Side.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
night Side Studios on w b Z.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
The news radio. Let's finish strong, gonna go to Jack
down of the Cape. Jack on Cape called, Hey Jack,
where about to the Cape?
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Again?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Hi? Jack? Where about the Cape?
Speaker 4 (31:08):
If I could ask where I'm in? West West German?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, okay, go ahead, Uh.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Enjoy your topics? Has every night as.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I tang in every name. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
But I'm going to preface my remarks with a quote,
there are no problems. There are only unrealized solutions. Okay,
so well, let's let's go into it. As far as
(31:50):
the eighteen wheelers that are out there, the twelve, the
twelve wheelers, the you know, these guys that are out
there making our lives work. I have said for decades
there should be uh a national at the government level
that these trucks should have strobe lights on them to
(32:14):
start flashing green. And what that means is everybody back up.
Let this man do what he needs to do with
men and women. These guys are operating. These guys are operating.
I couldn't drive an eighteener. I just couldn't handle the
the the the stress of the us.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
So do you think guy drivers are too aggressive, not
aggressive enough, or just right.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
They're uninformed. Now, Dan, let's go to the day where
we are every so every every person that's out there
driving has a cell phone. And what if we were
to imply that you have to have a driver's app on. Now,
(33:05):
the driver's app. As we're driving along, all the cell
phones would be communicating. So you're sitting in line waiting
for the light to change. Now the cell phone is
going to be triggered that, Hey, the light is going
to change, So you're going to get a ding ding ding,
get ready to take off, Dan, there are so many
(33:26):
unrealized solutions. That's my point.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well, I think that's a good point. Let's see if
other people want to react to it. Okay, thanks, Jack,
appreciate your call. Have a great night. All right, we're
going to go next to get rid of Jack. Let's
keep rolling here, going next to Matt and Bright Matt.
You're next to Night Saga. Right ahead.
Speaker 10 (33:46):
Hey, hey, Dan, how are you going?
Speaker 2 (33:49):
We're doing great?
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Go ahead, all right. So here's how I'll take it.
I think that every state has issues with driving and
you know, being distracted. Now, when it comes to some
of the things I heard before with cell phones and
stuff like that. Obviously I can't compare it to but
(34:13):
I am a huge proponent that you don't have a
drink and drive. You can wait for that text message.
And although people may do that when you're holding up
traffic and you're holding up other people, or you're doing
something that's going against the irregularity of focusing on the road,
(34:34):
you're putting other people's lives or something of that sort
on some level of risk. Now shmative troops is be
considered because of that the worst or most obnoxious. That's
you know, I guess in the I had to be
a holder then there might be a high risk of that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah, well, I think met that the survey that News
we had done was pretty good in terms of valves
between men and women, young and old. Uh, suburban versus
urban and rural. It seems to me like they're trying
their best in this poll. And again, uh, you know,
(35:16):
I don't necessarily agree with it, but they essentially say that, yeah,
we got a problem in Massachusetts, Matt, I gotta get
a couple more roots. I'm gonna let you run.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Okay, thank you man for no I hear, yeah, I
hear you.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
I just hear it the last not say quickly.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I gotta go, Matt, I gotta go, Thank you, Glad, Glen.
It gets in here. I got less than a minute
for I hated this, but there's four people behind you,
and you're gonna got about fifteen seconds. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Well, I was gonna kill two birds with one stone.
This is what crime is, my gears, that's one bird.
Now I speak English, I don't speak car horn ease.
And people they see that I've got my cane, they
should know that I'm a blind person. Don't beep their home.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Let me do this. I sure change here a couple.
Call back to one and we'll deal with this in
something like, Okay, I'm flat out of it.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
Can I call it? What time? I mean?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Rob will tell you. Okay, Glenn, I gotta go. Everybody,
I've done Rob Brooks, great job, Maritea a great job.
When midnight comes, folks, it comes. How much time I
got here? Rob? Oh, I thought you said one minute.
I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, Let's put Glenn
back on. Glenn. I thought he said one minute. Go ahead?
Speaker 6 (36:26):
All right? Yeah, I know like I'm trying to cross
the street and They're like beeping, little beeps, big loud
horned beaps. Does that mean go? Does that mean move
to down?
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Jerk?
Speaker 6 (36:40):
Does that mean we hold on? I'm coming. I mean,
I don't know what car Hornese means. I speak English,
not car Hornese. And it's like, you know, we'll say
once in a while to go go go, and I'm like,
well I'm waiting for help, go go, and I fin
they don't go the extra mile, and well nobody does
that anymore. Flap soured on humanity. I mean, it's just
(37:04):
I don't know if it's just very frustrating. It's not
like it was fifty years ago, you know, when someone
would actually get out of a car and say take
my arm, that could I go to a base?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Well, I think that it's up to the pedestrians to
basically guide you a little bit. You're you're a disadvantage
clearly as you're trying to cross the street, and people
should be more considerate civil as that. Glad I appreciate
it and bring in a different perspective as always. Sorry
I misread Rob. I thought he said one, yeah, gotta go,
(37:35):
Thank you. All right, I'm gonna try to help other
people in here, get them in as well. Chris in
Eastbridge Water, Chris, go right.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
Ahead, Yes, shootings quick Dan first, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Merry Christmas to you, Chris.
Speaker 11 (37:50):
Number two, all zero one on one, quick thing. And
I see this all the time. People who cut into fuel.
Funeral processions gotta be drawn and quartered. Did I remember
where I was in one three years ago? Somebody almost
took the side off my truck cutting in and then
beat the laid on their horn at me when we
were at a stoplight. I just rolled down the window,
(38:11):
showed them a funeral tag and yelled at them. And
it was a funeral procession, I said a couple of
other things.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
It's impossible to me to realize that there are people
who want to ignore funeral processions.
Speaker 11 (38:26):
And get mad at you because they did something wrong.
They should put a cop at the back of O's
and they would probably make a fortune writing tickets.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
I'm with you. I'm with you, good call. Thanks Chris.
Got to keep going here.
Speaker 4 (38:38):
Okay, thank you much, take care of happy holiday.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Save you Merry Christmas. Okay. Uh. John is in New Hampshire.
What do we get left?
Speaker 6 (38:47):
Rob?
Speaker 2 (38:47):
About a minute and a half. Okay, John, want to
take care of you. Go ahead, John, your next.
Speaker 12 (38:53):
Thanks Dan, Merry Christmas, and I thank you how you
are on your show with a thank you my dog
I past eight years ago this past August. But I
disagree with you. I think you guys are to address
of down there. I grew up in Massachusetts, and as
soon as you cross that state line, there's someone within
a second behind you. Everyone is in a rush, just
(39:15):
like you're saying, if you don't go through that light
too fast, someone's gonna beep.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
Saying if you're at the head, John, I'm just saying,
if you're at the head of the line and a
truds green, why not just go through the light?
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Mean what?
Speaker 12 (39:31):
Because I'm gonna do the first thing you're taught when
you when I was send out of the house, stand
is you look both ways before you cross the road
because you've already.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Wants to take How long does it take you to
look both ways?
Speaker 12 (39:42):
Two seconds? Second? One second?
Speaker 6 (39:44):
Two?
Speaker 12 (39:46):
But I understand with it. And that's the other thing, Massachusetts.
I don't think you guys are the worst drivers. I've
driven cross country on I seventy three times, coming back
I eighty three times. Connecticut is the worst drivers, and
I'll tell you why. Same thing as Massachusetts, small roads
to any people.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
All Right, Okay, you got the final word in John,
but we're done for the night, so I gotta let
you go. Thanks very much. We'll talk again, okay, Rob,
thank you, Marita, thank you. Our dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. And that's why Peal Charlie Rayes,
who passed fourteen years ago in February, that's why your
pets are her past. They love you and you love them.
I do believe you'll see them again, see you again anymore.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
Night.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Everybody be on Facebook in a moment, Have a great Wednesday.
Back tomorrow night. Thanks everyone,
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